Reddit clone, Voat, has its servers shut down due to politically incorrect content.

[JohnBrown1917]

https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757

[prwraith]

Reddit needs to reverse their stance imo otherwise long term it will become useless.

I'm glad voat is moving elsewhere

[Deleted]

So a hosting provider terminates a contract with a company utilising it's services because they feel it is damaging to their brand because of all the hatred on it?

How is there a problem here? The hosting provider clearly doesn't want to be associated with hate speech.

[JohnBrown1917]

Happy thoughts.

Don't worry, they'll find a new, and proper, hosting service.

[Deleted]

Hmm, can't really fault a company for wanting to disassociate themselves with what appears to be the leftovers from those banned subreddits.

[Independent voter]

http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/19/sw...rrect-content/

Though on this?

Free speech laws are different in the EU. You can't have hate speech for example.

In the US, pretty much anything goes but even here you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

[Deleted]

Free speech laws are different in the EU. You can't have hate speech for example.

In the US, pretty much anything goes but even here you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

Although a company even in the US would be within their rights to shut down offensive content being hosted on their servers.

This is like renting out your house and then later discovering your tenant is using it as a chapel for the KKK. Of course you want to remove them and ensure your name doesn't have any association with it.

[Donald Hellscream]

Guess it has to do with all the fat people hate cunts that migrated from reddit? If so then good riddance.

[Rixis]

Free speech laws are different in the EU. You can't have hate speech for example.

In the US, pretty much anything goes but even here you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater.

Free speech laws in the US are little different, seeing as they don't apply to private entities. Sure, you can say it, but if they want to ban you, that's perfectly fine too, US or EU.

[NuLogic]

They didn't want to be affiliated with that I guess. A better heads up would have been nice but nothing to do but move on.

[Independent voter]

Free speech laws in the US are little different, seeing as they don't apply to private entities. Sure, you can say it, but if they want to ban you, that's perfectly fine too, US or EU.

The difference is groups like the Nazi Party are outlawed. The EU has hate speech laws that don't exist in the US.

Sure, a private business can ban anyone for anything, but in the EU some speech is illegal and a private company can suffer legal consequences.

[Beazy]

Who cares, they will have a new server provider up and running before the day ends.


*edit* NM, its already up.

Sorry SJWs. =o[*********

[Naxere]

Their servers, they can decide what they want to host. Neutral on the rest.

[Gheld]

I'm so glad they are taking the meanie faces off the internet.

This whole needing to moderate content primarily accessed by mature adults to prevent hurt feelings will usher in a new age of social darwinism.

[owbu]

Seems like an acceptable opinion to have as a hoster.
Hate speech isnt really something, I want to have protected by the goverment.

[Nadiru]

Same here.
If you want to act like an idiot, people will treat you like one.

On the other hand, if the people you consider idiots have a place to be idiots they'll be off in their Idiot Corner instead of polluting your personal space with their idiocy. Treating people like idiots is okay; actively attempting to root out places where idiots congregate makes you a masochist. And also quite possibly an idiot.

[Deleted]

I'm so glad they are taking the meanie faces off the internet.

This whole needing to moderate content primarily accessed by mature adults to prevent hurt feelings will usher in a new age of social darwinism.

They aren't "taking the meanie faces off the internet", they are just saying fuck off if you want to host hate speech - we don't want our company associated with it. Which is perfectly within their rights...

Voat can either invest in their own servers or find a hosting provider who doesn't mind hosting hate speech.

[Mosotti]

Although a company even in the US would be within their rights to shut down offensive content being hosted on their servers.

This is like renting out your house and then later discovering your tenant is using it as a chapel for the KKK. Of course you want to remove them and ensure your name doesn't have any association with it.

Unless you like KKK and join the party...

I can only congratulate that provider and fuck freedom of speech if its only reason is hate and bullying. It's sad that a lot of people have nothing to do with their shit fucking lives than to search for the perfect site to throw up their fucked up minds on...

[Nadiru]

Aftermath of first hand experience with hate speech gone wild during the early 20th century.

And banning stuff usually works, too. It's why the temperance movement was such a smashing success in the US and the war on drugs has turned the Middle East, South America, and Africa into prosperous, stable geopolitical entities.

[Wildtree]

http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/19/sw...rrect-content/




Though on this?

Service providers are by German law liable for the content of their customers......
Means, it's normal when they're getting shut down.